Django Admin without Authentication

Question

Is there a ready way to use the Django admin page without any form of authentication? I know I can use this method, but that was for Django 1.3. Are there any changes that would let me do this more easily in Django 1.6?

My main motivation for this is that I want to have as few database tables as possible, and I am using this only locally, so there is no need for any sort of authentication (I'm only ever running the server on localhost anyways).

Answer 1

The accepted answer is already super simple however after messing around with this I found that in recent versions of Django (since admin.site.has_permission became a thing... >= 1.8?) you can do it without middleware.

In your project's urls.py:

from django.contrib import admin

class AccessUser:
    has_module_perms = has_perm = __getattr__ = lambda s,*a,**kw: True

admin.site.has_permission = lambda r: setattr(r, 'user', AccessUser()) or True

# Register the admin views or call admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = [
    # Your url configs then...
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

If you have AccessUser extend User you can leave out the __getattr__ portion which is a hacky way to return something when user.pk or similar is called.